Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Owning or having no land.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of land; having no property in land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no property in land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not owning land.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective owning no land
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mugabe promised land to the 'landless' - and proceeded the parcel the land out to his senior loyalists - and even in some cases, the 'new' landowners have evicted the people living on that land.
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Fifteen years ago, he survived one of the deadliest land conflicts in Brazil, when police killed 10 of the so-called landless activists in an encampment on land they had occupied.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Fifteen years ago, he survived one of the deadliest land conflicts in Brazil, when police killed 10 of the so-called landless activists in an encampment on land they had occupied.
The Seattle Times 2011
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If they were somehow to make common cause with other restive rural-born Chinese, such as landless farmers or migrant workers, they'd be extremely hard to suppress.
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"It is more about the handing over of commercial agricultural land to the 'landless' and not about creating opportunities for emerging farmers as we are meant to believe."
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His remarks came days before the deadline set by him for the conclusion of his so-called "revolutionary land reform programme" and the distribution of thousands of white-owned farms among allegedly "landless" Zimbabweans.
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(I knew of no one in my school or among my friends and relations whose family had experienced the slightest problem during the entire famine; it was not a famine that afflicted even the lower middle classes - only people much further down the economic ladder, such as landless rural labourers.)
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The concept behind Crop Mob is that "landless" people still take interest in food production and enjoy an occasional bit of manual labor.
CNN.com 2010
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In 1970s Brazil, the Roman Catholic Church ran a few Pastoral Commissions - organisations designed to offer support and spiritual guidance to marginalised groups such as landless peasants, prison inmates and migrant workers.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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Truth be told we live in 'day to day' kind of landless consumer serfdom I'd really like see abolished.
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